Power Cobol Program Installation

I have developed a Nutrional Analysis Application in Power Cobol V7.
I hope to distribute it to Windows 98, 2000 and XP Users.
Has anyone successfully used a commercial Windows Installer to install the P
ower Cobol Runtime, Cobol programs, dll's and files?
If so, which one? Would you share the scripts or basic information to succee
d in this?

Dave <Dave.1b7qdn@mail.codecomments.com> wrote in message news:<Dave.1b7qdn@mail.codecommen
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> I have developed a Nutrional Analysis Application in Power Cobol V7.
> I hope to distribute it to Windows 98, 2000 and XP Users.
> Has anyone successfully used a commercial Windows Installer to install
> the Power Cobol Runtime, Cobol programs, dll's and files?
> If so, which one? Would you share the scripts or basic information to
> succeed in this?

Hi,
I use Nullsoft Install System ( http://nsis.sourceforge.net ). These
are the guis who developed Winamp, and along, a very easy to use free
installer.
If you choose to go this path, check the editors too (Venix IX and HM
NIS Edit).
If you want to email me privately, replace the ".pt" in the email
address with ".net".

Best regards,

Paulo Vieira, Emporsoft

quote:
Originally posted by Paulo Vieira 
Dave <Dave.1b7qdn@mail.codecomments.com> wrote in message news:<Dave.1b7qdn@mail.codecommen
ts.com>...
> I have developed a Nutrional Analysis Application in Power Cobol V7.
> I hope to distribute it to Windows 98, 2000 and XP Users.
> Has anyone successfully used a commercial Windows Installer to install
> the Power Cobol Runtime, Cobol programs, dll's and files?
> If so, which one? Would you share the scripts or basic information to
> succeed in this?

Hi,
I use Nullsoft Install System ( http://nsis.sourceforge.net ). These
are the guis who developed Winamp, and along, a very easy to use free
installer.
If you choose to go this path, check the editors too (Venix IX and HM
NIS Edit).
If you want to email me privately, replace the ".pt" in the email
address with ".net".

Best regards,

Paulo Vieira, Emporsoft 


Paulo,

Thanks for the quick reply.
I have downloaded NSIS and Venix.
I see I have a LOT to learn.

David Mesich, Brainchild Software

Dave wrote:
> I have developed a Nutrional Analysis Application in Power Cobol V7.
> I hope to distribute it to Windows 98, 2000 and XP Users.
> Has anyone successfully used a commercial Windows Installer to install
> the Power Cobol Runtime, Cobol programs, dll's and files?
> If so, which one? Would you share the scripts or basic information to
> succeed in this?

We use Wise Professional. It works, but you have to be a friggin' genius to
use it. There are still some things we do not know how to do (such as
installing for "All Users" in an XP environment) and some simple things that
cannot be done and that Wise admits are "known bugs."

We switched to Wise from InstallShield which was ghastly.

Maybe it's just us.

I'm gonna give Paulo's suggestion a try....

Jerry

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>
> I have developed a Nutrional Analysis Application in Power Cobol V7.
> I hope to distribute it to Windows 98, 2000 and XP Users.
> Has anyone successfully used a commercial Windows Installer to install
> the Power Cobol Runtime, Cobol programs, dll's and files?
> If so, which one? Would you share the scripts or basic information to
> succeed in this?
>
>
>
> --
> Dave
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>

It may be a bit simple but...Fujitsu has it's own runtime+applications
installer, where you can put your applications in a separate dir. Simply
SFX the complete dir with runtime and application with Winrar, and let it
call the Fujitsu setup.exe. See the runtime install manual.

ps.

quote:
Originally posted by ps 
Dave <Dave.1b7qdn@mail.codecomments.com> wrote in
news:Dave.1b7qdn@mail.codecomments.com:

>
> I have developed a Nutrional Analysis Application in Power Cobol V7.
> I hope to distribute it to Windows 98, 2000 and XP Users.
> Has anyone successfully used a commercial Windows Installer to install
> the Power Cobol Runtime, Cobol programs, dll's and files?
> If so, which one? Would you share the scripts or basic information to
> succeed in this?
>
>
>
> --
> Dave
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Posted via http://www.codecomments.com
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>

It may be a bit simple but...Fujitsu has it's own runtime+applications
installer, where you can put your applications in a separate dir. Simply
SFX the complete dir with runtime and application with Winrar, and let it
call the Fujitsu setup.exe. See the runtime install manual.

ps. 
 

Thank you,

I have used the Fujitsu installer and it works as long as the user has the p
roper MS Windows installer on the machine for their
operating system. However, I have not succeeded in installing to Windows XP 
even though the latest MS Installer is there.
Maybe I'm missing something?

Dave

Dave <Dave.1b7qdn@mail.codecomments.com> wrote in message news:<Dave.1b7qdn@mail.codecommen
ts.com>...
> I have developed a Nutrional Analysis Application in Power Cobol V7.
> I hope to distribute it to Windows 98, 2000 and XP Users.
> Has anyone successfully used a commercial Windows Installer to install
> the Power Cobol Runtime, Cobol programs, dll's and files?
> If so, which one? Would you share the scripts or basic information to
> succeed in this?

Hi,
I use Nullsoft Install System ( http://nsis.sourceforge.net ). These
are the guis who developed Winamp, and along, a very easy to use free
installer.
If you choose to go this path, check the editors too (Venix IX and HM
NIS Edit).
If you want to email me privately, replace the ".pt" in the email
address with ".net".

Best regards,

Paulo Vieira, Emporsoft

Dave wrote:
> I have developed a Nutrional Analysis Application in Power Cobol V7.
> I hope to distribute it to Windows 98, 2000 and XP Users.
> Has anyone successfully used a commercial Windows Installer to install
> the Power Cobol Runtime, Cobol programs, dll's and files?
> If so, which one? Would you share the scripts or basic information to
> succeed in this?

We use Wise Professional. It works, but you have to be a friggin' genius to
use it. There are still some things we do not know how to do (such as
installing for "All Users" in an XP environment) and some simple things that
cannot be done and that Wise admits are "known bugs."

We switched to Wise from InstallShield which was ghastly.

Maybe it's just us.

I'm gonna give Paulo's suggestion a try....

Jerry